[Boost-build] mysterious quickbook build error (was:: [Accumulators] Documentation)

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-17 13:50:31

I can't build the accumulators docs because of some cryptic error from 
quickbook's jamfile. (See below.) Oddly, I can build quickbook from the 
tools/quickbook directory, and I can build other docs that depend on 
quickbook (e.g., xpressive's docs).

I've narrowed it down to the uses of <dependency> in 
accumulators/docs/Jamfile.v2, which has the following:

xml accumulators
     :
         accumulators.qbk
     :
         <xsl:param>boost.max.id.length=1024
         <xsl:param>toc.max.depth=4
         <xsl:param>toc.section.depth=4
         <xsl:param>chunk.section.depth=2
         <dependency>accdoc
         <dependency>statsdoc
         <dependency>opdoc
     ;

accdoc, statsdoc and opdoc are doxygen targets. If I comment out those 
dependencies, then the error goes away. Seems likely to be a bug in 
quickbook's jamfile, but I don't really know.

Can anybody help?

-------- Original Message --------
Edward Diener wrote:
> Attempting to build accumulators documentation from the latest SVN head 
> by executing bjam from the /boost/libs/accumulators/doc directory yields:
> 
> error: Unable to find file or target named
> error:     'object(file-target)@476'
> error: referred from project at
> error:   /E:/Programming/VersionControl/Subversion/Boost/tools/quickbook'

Confirmed, but I don't see what in the accumulators/doc/Jamfile.v2 could
be causing this, and I'm serving jury duty so I don't have time to
investigate. Perhaps some kind bbv2 expert could take a glance?

-- 
Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com